[WarMachine]

In re Maren Jensen, having gone through the DVD outtakes, I can definitely say that her best scenes were all cut - every one of them. She was reduced to a flouncy bimbo 15 minutes into 'Saga'.

I'd have left, too.

If it were me, I'd have written some dramatic show-down, where she definitively loses out to Cassie, then requests to transfer off the bridge to help rebuild Red Squadron, ending up as the Squadron Leader - Jensen could have done that part well - and butting heads with Apollo, her now-direct superior in his post of Strike Leader (which would have, in 1979, made two-thirds of the Galactica's Squadron Leaders women!).....Of course, I would also have stuck with the 'Saga' novelization version of her, where she was already a highly qualified Viper-driver, functionally equivalent to an IP (Instructor Pilot) -- talk about missed opportunities!

In effect, the on-screen version of Athena makes Adama look like he gave her a job on the bridge because she was basically useless for anything else.